Ed from United States, VA Public Profile

First off, this thing is so much fun to shoot with. It is incredibly ergonomic and really helps increase accuracy when shooting your Glock. All the good things people have to say about it are largely true.

Now the negatives: it doesn't hold zero well when moving your pistol in and out, and the shroud and the back pressure it causes will make you need to clean your weapon pretty much every time you use it. As a result, this isn't really as useful as a lot of other comparable systems like a 9mm chambered AR. If you take it to the range to zero it, you're going to want to clean it. But if you clean it, you're going to throw your zero off.

Its two tons of fun if you're simply enjoying it for target practice, but if you plan to actually use it the cleaning and upkeep make it kind of hard.

I do think this would probably be better if you got an extended barrel for your pistol, so take this with somewhat of a grain of salt.

This is a pretty inexpensive mount; for what you're paying its OK but I would suggest looking at some other options. One thing to note here, which I think is relevant, is that I think a lot of what I didn't like about this hand guard is probably inherent in quad rails. This was my first hand guard beyond the factory M4 guard and I don't think I fully understood the implications of a quad rail guard - mainly that it adds bulk to have 4 rails and it also adds lots of weight compared to other hand guards.

First the good - the mounting system is kind of cool; it's not very complicated and it seems rock solid. It has 4 rails which is a lot of mounting surface to put stuff and you certainly won't run out of space. The extra length on the hand guard can be nice too compared to carbine length guards.

Now the not so good. First, the guard turns on. You could probably use a strap wrench to do this but I didn't. The edges, despite being finished, were sharp enough to leave some fine cuts on my hands. I'm not crazy about that. The hand guard is noticeably heavier than the factory m4 guard which I replaced it with. The finish on the hand guard is also very shiny, not matte like it looks in the photo.

I ultimately swapped this one out for one that is lighter weight and a bit less bulky, but with only a single mounting surface.

This sight is made of steel which is nice for durability. It is reasonably compact which limits the weight, although by its nature steel will be a bit heavier than aluminum. I got these to replace an aluminum flip up sight that broke and prefer the weight to risking loss of the back up. I also like the angling and rapid transition feature compared to standard flip ups. The apparatus on the rear sight has two sizes that flip to transition. I saw one review that complained about the sight picture- I can’t say I agree and find the sight picture to be great. Lastly, these have rear adjustments for long range shooting. I haven’t had a chance to take these to a long distance range but I’m impressed to see this feature on sight at this price point.